http://www.mail.com/people/7750-thein-sein.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/7750-thein-sein.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097430-obama-vows-us-support-myanmar-leader-visits.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to democracy and assured him of U.S. support. Obama spoke as he sat in the Oval Office with former general Thein Sein, who became the first ... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:49:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097430-obama-vows-us-support-myanmar-leader-visits.html 2013-05-20T23:49:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2098722-myanmar-leader-vows-justice-communal-violence.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein says that all perpetrators of inter-communal violence in the country will be brought to justice. Thein Sein made the comments Monday in a speech at a university in Washington after meeting President Barack Obama. Myanmar has been roiled by unrest between Buddhists and minority Muslims over the past year that ... Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2098722-myanmar-leader-vows-justice-communal-violence.html 2013-05-20T21:36:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087818-myanmars-president-to-visit-white-house-monday.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to welcome Myanmar President Thein Sein (tayn sayn) to the White House Monday. It will be the first visit by a Myanmar head of state in nearly 47 years and a sign of warming ties between the countries. Last November, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country also known as Burma. The ... Wed, 15 May 2013 17:16:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087818-myanmars-president-to-visit-white-house-monday.html 2013-05-15T17:16:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081878-myanmar-president-to-official-us-visit.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's reformist President Thein Sein will visit the White House next week, the first such trip by a Myanmar head of state in almost 47 years and a sign of warming ties. Myanmar state television announced the U.S. visit Monday, saying it comes at the invitation of President Barack Obama. It gave no exact date, but congressional s... Mon, 13 May 2013 23:17:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081878-myanmar-president-to-official-us-visit.html 2013-05-13T23:17:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2055460-myanmar-muslims-face-uncertain-future-attack.html OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) — They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris. One day after hundreds of Buddhists armed with bricks stormed a clutch of Muslim villages in the closest explosion of sectarian violence yet to Myanmar's main city, Yang... Wed, 01 May 2013 13:33:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2055460-myanmar-muslims-face-uncertain-future-attack.html 2013-05-01T13:33:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2039202-myanmar-pardons-93-including-political-prisoners.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's president pardoned 93 prisoners, including at least 59 political detainees, a day after the European Union lifted sanctions against the Southeast Asian nation. The pardon was announced on state television Tuesday amid renewed calls for President Thein Sein's government to release hundreds more political prisoners still bel... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:50:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2039202-myanmar-pardons-93-including-political-prisoners.html 2013-04-24T00:50:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997256-myanmar-communal-unrest-threatens-reforms.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were lauded by visiting Western leaders, and the nation's president was hailed as a hero. But spasms of spreading, communal violence show the reform path is bumpier than expected and have taken the sheen off a foreig... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:02:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997256-myanmar-communal-unrest-threatens-reforms.html 2013-04-04T12:02:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1992798-13-children-die-myanmar-mosque-fire.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police in Myanmar said they are investigating the head of a mosque and a Muslim teacher for possible negligence after a pre-dawn fire swept a religious dormitory Tuesday, killing 13 children in a blaze that raised new concern over sectarian tensions that have plagued the country since anti-Muslim violence hit its heartland last month. ... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1992798-13-children-die-myanmar-mosque-fire.html 2013-04-02T14:39:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1989456-privately-owned-daily-newspapers-return-to-myanmar.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The newspaper industry might be shrinking in the rest of the world but it expanded Monday in Myanmar when privately run daily newspapers hit newsstands for the first time in 50 years. For many people, the rebirth of daily papers is a novelty: Many weren't even born when the late dictator Ne Win imposed a state monopoly on the daily ... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:27:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1989456-privately-owned-daily-newspapers-return-to-myanmar.html 2013-04-01T05:27:36Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1988674-ap-opens-full-news-bureau-myanmar.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades. The opening paves the way for AP to expand its coverage of the unfolding transition in Myanmar, whic... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1988674-ap-opens-full-news-bureau-myanmar.html 2013-03-30T19:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1981654-general-myanmar-military-staying-politics.html NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — The military that ruled Myanmar for five decades paraded its might Wednesday in front of the opposition leader it once repressed, as its commander in chief said it will remain involved in politics to help the country transform itself into a democracy. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, attending the annual Armed Forces Day celeb... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:38:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1981654-general-myanmar-military-staying-politics.html 2013-03-27T16:38:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1980100-myanmar-sets-curfews-to-curb-spread-violence.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Authorities in Myanmar imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in three townships after anti-Muslim religious violence touched new parts of the country, edging closer to the main city of Yangon. State television Tuesday reported incidents in the three townships in Bago region, all within 150 kilometers (100 miles) of Yangon. The latest attack... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:24:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1980100-myanmar-sets-curfews-to-curb-spread-violence.html 2013-03-27T01:24:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1977318-myanmar-warns-violence-threaten-reforms.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's government warned Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in the country's predominantly Buddhist heartland. The mobs destroyed mosques and burned dozens of homes over the weekend despite attempts by the government to stem the nation's latest... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:03:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1977318-myanmar-warns-violence-threaten-reforms.html 2013-03-25T16:03:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1976464-buddhists-muslims-violence-spreads-myanmar.html MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country's heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced 10,000 more. President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in the region on ... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:17:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1976464-buddhists-muslims-violence-spreads-myanmar.html 2013-03-25T04:17:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1971968-un-myanmar-envoy-visits-ruined-city-violence.html MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — The top UN envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city destroyed in the country's worst explosion of Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left dozens of corpses piled in the streets, some of them charred beyond recognition. Vijay Nambiar, the U.N. secret... Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:32:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1971968-un-myanmar-envoy-visits-ruined-city-violence.html 2013-03-24T12:32:35Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971956-google-exec-urges-myanmar-to-embrace-free-speech.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Friday urged Myanmar's government to allow private businesses to develop the country's woeful telecommunications infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of competition and free speech. "Try to keep the government out of regulating the internet," he said to a round of applause from a group... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:02:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1971956-google-exec-urges-myanmar-to-embrace-free-speech.html 2013-03-22T07:02:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1967066-myanmar-parliament-agrees-to-review-constitution.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's parliament agreed Wednesday to set up a commission to review the pro-military 2008 constitution, a process that could eventually change the political landscape and allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to contest the presidency. Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party has long said that the constitution... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:22:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1967066-myanmar-parliament-agrees-to-review-constitution.html 2013-03-20T13:22:10Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1961904-myanmar-holds-press-law-criticism.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar journalists just getting used to their new era of freedom howled when the government announced plans for a media law that could lock many old restrictions back into place. Then, in the latest of many moves that never would have happened under the country's old military rulers, the government backed off. A bill restricting pu... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:29:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1961904-myanmar-holds-press-law-criticism.html 2013-03-18T12:29:49Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1961812-myanmar-president-welcomes-closer-australia-ties.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein welcomed closer ties with Australia on Monday as he asked for continued support through his country's transition to "peace, democracy and prosperity," a mission that he said "has no parallel in modern times." The first Myanmar leader to visit Australia since 1974, Thein Sein joined Australian Prime M... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:26:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1961812-myanmar-president-welcomes-closer-australia-ties.html 2013-03-18T08:26:16Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1954774-suu-kyi-meets-anger-myanmar-mine.html MONYWA, Myanmar (AP) — With rare hostility, villagers sharply criticized opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday as she traveled in northwestern Myanmar to explain why she supports a mining project opposed by many local residents. Suu Kyi failed to persuade the villagers to accept the findings of an official panel she headed that the Letpadaung cop... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:19:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1954774-suu-kyi-meets-anger-myanmar-mine.html 2013-03-14T16:19:54Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1948142-myanmar-mine-protesters-reject-official-report.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Opponents of a nearly $1 billion copper mine in northwestern Myanmar expressed outrage Tuesday over a government-ordered report that said the project should continue and that refrained from demanding punishment for police involved in a violent crackdown on protesters. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi chaired the investigation comm... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:05:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1948142-myanmar-mine-protesters-reject-official-report.html 2013-03-12T21:05:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1944168-suu-kyi-selected-to-remain-myanmar-opposition-head.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Aung San Suu Kyi was selected Sunday to continue as head of Myanmar's main opposition party, keeping her leadership post even as the party undergoes a makeover to adjust to the country's new democratic framework. The Nobel laureate was named chairwoman of the National League for Democracy's new executive board on the final day of a ... Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:54:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1944168-suu-kyi-selected-to-remain-myanmar-opposition-head.html 2013-03-10T13:54:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1913776-us-caught-awkward-embrace-myanmar-crony.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, the world's hottest frontier market. Flanked by national flags, Win Aung, the president of Myanmar's main business association, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez shook hands in Yangon and agreed to deepen business ties between their countries. ... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:47:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1913776-us-caught-awkward-embrace-myanmar-crony.html 2013-02-26T01:47:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905128-myanmar-answers-to-ethnic-conflict-elusive.html LAWA YANG, Myanmar (AP) — Kneeling beside a line of freshly dug trenches carved like one long, open wound into a lush hillside, the rebel sergeant peered through dusty binoculars at all his troops had lost. Scattered across the sprawling valley below, a dozen thatched-roof homes stood quiet, abandoned by fleeing villagers as government forces drew near. T... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:31:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905128-myanmar-answers-to-ethnic-conflict-elusive.html 2013-02-21T07:31:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1869164-freedom-brings-challenges-myanmar-writers.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Poet Saw Wai parked himself on the lawn, unfurled a map of Myanmar with a blob of blood-red paint dripping down from a spot up north and invited people to make poetry with him. "He's calling for more trouble," said a passerby. What the message lacked in subtlety it made up for in brazenness. Government forces have been pounding ethn... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1869164-freedom-brings-challenges-myanmar-writers.html 2013-02-05T07:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855308-myanmar-abolishes-25-year-ban-public-gatherings.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's nearly 2-year-old reformist government has abolished a ban on public gatherings of more than five people that was ordered in 1988 on the day a military junta took power after crushing nationwide pro-democracy protests. The state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper reported Tuesday that Order No 2/88 was abolished as it was not in l... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855308-myanmar-abolishes-25-year-ban-public-gatherings.html 2013-01-30T00:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850178-deal-signed-to-clear-myanmar-debt-allow-loans.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The World Bank announced a long-awaited deal to allow Myanmar to clear part of its huge decades-old foreign debt, opening the door for new much-needed lending to jumpstart its lagging economy. The bank's Washington headquarters said in a statement Sunday that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the country's overseas devel... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850178-deal-signed-to-clear-myanmar-debt-allow-loans.html 2013-01-28T02:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1847510-myanmar-rejects-us-criticism-ethnic-conflict.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar has rejected the latest U.S. criticism of its conflict with ethnic Kachin rebels, and deplores that Washington still calls the country by its old name, Burma, according to a statement published Saturday. A Myanmar Foreign Ministry statement published in the state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper "rejected" a news release issued Th... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1847510-myanmar-rejects-us-criticism-ethnic-conflict.html 2013-01-26T10:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1841038-report-myanmar-recruits-child-soldiers.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights group said Wednesday. Child Soldiers International reports levels of child recruitment have declined, and 42 children have been released from Myanmar's army since the government signed the ag... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1841038-report-myanmar-recruits-child-soldiers.html 2013-01-23T20:42:00Z